Saliency-Enhanced Content-Based Image Retrieval for Diagnosis Support in Dermatology Consultation: Reader Study

Mathias Gassner   ^{1, 2 *} , MSc ;   Javier Barranco Garcia   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Stephanie Tanadini-Lang   ³ , PhD, PD ;   Fabio Bertoldo   ⁴ , MD ;   Fabienne Fröhlich   ⁴ , MD ;   Matthias Guckenberger   ³ , Prof Dr ;   Silvia Haueis   ⁴ , MD ;   Christin Pelzer   ⁴ , MD ;   Mauricio Reyes   ^{5, 6} , Prof Dr ;   Patrick Schmithausen   ⁴ , MD ;   Dario Simic   ⁴ , MD ;   Ramon Staeger   ⁴ , MD ;   Fabio Verardi   ⁴ , MD ;   Nicolaus Andratschke   ³ , Prof Dr ;   Andreas Adelmann   ⁷ , Prof Dr ;   Ralph P Braun   ⁸ , Prof Dr

¹ Department of Radio Oncology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

² Physics Department, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

³ Department of Radio Oncology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

⁴ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

⁵ ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

⁷ Laboratory for Scientific Computing and Modelling, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland

⁸ Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

*these authors contributed equally